Early HIV Infection: High Risk of Infecting Others You are 20 times more contagious during acute HIV infection than you are during long-term infection. This is because the viral load in your blood is far higher during seroconversion than it is at any other stage.
When muscles become dehydrated the fibers can stick together and cause painful areas which are sometimes called âtrigger pointsâ. A muscle massage can soften these rigid areas and bring flexibility back to the muscles by lubricating the muscle fibers and allowing them to operate independently again.
strands of tough connective tissue connect the skeletal muscles to bones these strands of tissue are called tendon s when a muscle that connects two bones gets shorter the bones are pulled closer to each other for example tendons attach the biceps muscle to a bone in your shoulder and to a bone in your forearmwhen the biceps muscle shortens your forearm bends toward your shoulderthe skeletal muscles often work in pairs to produce smooth controlled motions by pulling or contractingendons are shiny white tissues at the ends of the muscles that attach muscles to bones find as many tendons as you can on the chicken wing b pull on a tendon to see how it helps the chicken move its wing